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Florida Alert! Parkland Dad, Andrew Pollack: "March for Our Lives" Made Kids LESS SAFE

Sunday, February 16, 2020

DATE:    February 16, 2020
TO:        USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:   Marion P. Hammer
  USF Executive Director
  NRA Past President

Andrew Pollack is the father of Meadow Pollack, a victim of the Parkland mass murderer.  He works to get the truth out while gun control zealots work to hide the truth by blaming guns.  This courageous story is a must read for those who really want to know the truth.  

Parkland Dad Andrew Pollack: ‘March for Our Lives’ Made America’s Kids Less Safe 

By Andrew Pollack

Breitbart

February 14, 2020 

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2020/02/14/parkland-dad-andrew-pollack-march-for-our-lives-made-americas-kids-less-safe/                

Two years ago today, my daughter Meadow and sixteen others were murdered in the Parkland school shooting. For the families of the victims, it was an unspeakable tragedy. But for others, it was an incredible political opportunity. 

The shooting propelled a handful of shrill student activists to fame. The most prominent one, David Hogg, later mused, “We really only remember a few hundred people, if that many, out of the billions that have ever lived. Is that what I was destined to become?” 

No, David. My daughter wasn’t murdered so that you could fulfill your “destiny” of tweeting about historically marginalized “indigenous lgbtq women and non binary” gun control activists. 

She was murdered because of the failures of the Broward County school district, sheriff’s office, and mental health services. Failures that partisan agitprop, spewed by you and the other March For Our Lives (MFOL) activists, helped to shield from the public eye. 

Although I disagreed with the gun control kids politically, I made it a rule not to criticize them publicly. Because I figured that despite our differences, we all wanted the same thing: safe schools… 

Read the full story here:

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2020/02/14/parkland-dad-andrew-pollack-march-for-our-lives-made-americas-kids-less-safe/

 

 

 

 

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